wordpress design Question: Want to build a commercial website. Can anyone recommend a wordpress theme (read requirements carefully)?
I would like to build a fairly simple, yet attractive, commercial site using wordpress.

I’ve had a go at designing the site using a crappy online WYSIWYG editor that came with my GoDaddy domain registration, but it seems able to do about four-fifths of nothing.

I have a very specific idea of what I want, and this is absolutely key to which template you recommend.

I want a 1000-pixel wide working area, with a tarditional 1000-pixel wide logo (which I’ll design) and left-right menu bar underneath it. So far so easy.

Here’s where I’m a bit stumped: Below this, I’d like the background of the site to be a B&W picture of my choosing, (which will only act, really, as partly-visible background texture behind the text boxes overlaying it). Over this, and occupying most of the the left half of the screen, I’d like to overlay a solid black text box with *rounded corners*, (in which I will write in with white text). There should be a fair bit of room around the edge of this text box, so you can see a suggestion of the image behind.

I’d like the whole site follow this model, though though I’d like to have the option of filling the right hand side of the screen with an identically-shaped box filled, edge-to-edge with an image of my choosing. If that image could be a rotation of images, even better.

So far, from what I’ve seen, the WordPress templates don’t seem particularly flexible. I’d settle for a ready-made template that looked like this. Frankly I’m stumped, and I’m no website designer.

That said, I’m no dunce, technically. I simply don’t have time to learn to code, and want a quick-and-dirty solution to what I’m trying to do.

Best Response:

Answer by Frazer
Hi Pezmond,

What you are describing is web technique, but if you don’t have those skills then i would suggest you get a template made for you that you can just load into wordpress.

I would try elance.com where you will find people there that can do the work for you.

Hope this helps

Frazer Yorke

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